Traitor's Song

25. Into The Woods

"So you're telling me that bloodsucker here..."

"Please don't call me that."

"So you're telling me that Mr. Human Leech over here is related to the people that captured Jungkook?" asked Taehyung who didn't seem to miss a beat.

"Yes," said Henley as she watched Yoongi massage his forehead.

The rain drumming against the outer deck could be heard even louder than before as the sliding glass door was opened and Jin and Hobi came in soaked to the bone. They looked like two drowned rats as they walked towards the others in the kitchen,.

"We can't find Jungkook anywhere," said Hobi as Jin moved to grab up a clean dish rag, using it to mop up the rivers of water on his face before handing a clean one to Hobi so he could do the same.

"We can't just leave him out in the storm," said Jimin.

"Well what are we supposed to do? If he ran into the forest in this storm, it'll be nearly impossible to find him," said Jin.

"He's right. I hate to admit it, but it's true. We'll have to wait until the storm is over. It'll kill us," said Hobi.

"I'll go look for him," said Yoongi suddenly. "I'm dead anyway, so this storm can't effect me like it can the rest of you."

"You sure that is wise leech?"

Yoongi shot Taehyung a look, nodding his head.

"It's my fault he's out there," said Yoongi. "So let me be the one to bring him home."

"Let me go with you at least," volunteered Henley as Jin immediately shook his head.

"No. Stay here with Hobi, Taehyung and Jimin," said Jin to Henley. "I'll go with Yoongi."

"No," said Yoongi. "Neither of you are coming. This is a solo mission that I will deal with."

"No offense, but how can we fully trust you after that revelation you just dropped on us as gracefully as a nuclear bomb?" asked Taehyung.

"Listen, fish lips," said Yoongi, getting irritated by Taehyung trying to be all clever. "You're just going to have to trust me. I'll bring Jungkook back or...or I just won't come back."

Yoongi looked at Jin, trying to erase all traces of fear from himself. He had to be brave and do this.

"Can you please provide me with a few things if you have them laying about though?" asked Yoongi to Jin.

"Of course. What do you need?" asked Jin.

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Hobi and Jin weren't kidding about the storm, but then again Yoongi knew they hadn't been. He had barely made it to the tree line and it already felt like he had walked through a hurricane. Yoongi turned to look behind him to see that the storm was already shrouding the house from view completely in a mess of rain and stormy gray.

"Okay Yoongi. You can do this," he said out loud as he hoisted the burlap colored backpack higher onto his shoulder before throwing his hood up, venturing into the darkness of the woods beyond.

The howling of the wind encompassed him as his feet made slow progress through the murky and muddy forest floor. The wind almost sounded like ghosts haunting him along his way; the whistling and moaning around him punctuated once in a while by the cracking of a tree as it threatened to fall.

Even with the dense covering from the tree limbs, Yoongi still felt the icy droplets of rain stinging his skin. He shifted a hand backwards into the backpack to feel for the flashlight that he had asked for, flicking it on to help aid his way through the darkness of the forest. The further he got away from the house, the darker it seemed to get.